Sunlight on the Lawn

Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's trilogy describing the renovation of Merry Hall and its garden. This new edition is complete with a foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols's biographer, who provides a useful key to the various characters who populate Nichols's Merry Hall books. The account of the book given by the 1956 dust jacket still serves as an elegant summary: Merry Hall, the rambling old country house which Mr. Beverley Nichols rescued from desolation, is already a second home to many thousands of readers. They have shared his excitement as he gradually restored the house to its Georgian elegance and created a garden from a neglected wilderness.